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Henry VI, Part II
[I, 1] |
Earl of Suffolk |
5 |
As by your high imperial majesty
I had in charge at my depart for France,
As procurator to your excellence,
To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,
So, in the famous ancient city, Tours,
In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,
The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon,
Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops,
I have perform'd my task and was espoused:
And humbly now upon my bended knee,
In sight of England and her lordly peers,
Deliver up my title in the queen
To your most gracious hands, that are the substance
Of that great shadow I did represent;
The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,
The fairest queen that ever king received.
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2 |
Henry VI, Part II
[I, 1] |
Queen Margaret |
28 |
Great King of England and my gracious lord,
The mutual conference that my mind hath had,
By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,
In courtly company or at my beads,
With you, mine alder-liefest sovereign,
Makes me the bolder to salute my king
With ruder terms, such as my wit affords
And over-joy of heart doth minister.
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3 |
Henry VI, Part II
[I, 1] |
Duke of Gloucester |
60 |
Pardon me, gracious lord;
Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
And dimm'd mine eyes, that I can read no further.
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4 |
Henry VI, Part II
[III, 1] |
Duke/Earl of Somerset |
1361 |
All health unto my gracious sovereign!
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5 |
Henry VI, Part II
[III, 1] |
Duke of Gloucester |
1423 |
Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous:
Virtue is choked with foul ambition
And charity chased hence by rancour's hand;
Foul subornation is predominant
And equity exiled your highness' land.
I know their complot is to have my life,
And if my death might make this island happy,
And prove the period of their tyranny,
I would expend it with all willingness:
But mine is made the prologue to their play;
For thousands more, that yet suspect no peril,
Will not conclude their plotted tragedy.
Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice,
And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate;
Sharp Buckingham unburthens with his tongue
The envious load that lies upon his heart;
And dogged York, that reaches at the moon,
Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd back,
By false accuse doth level at my life:
And you, my sovereign lady, with the rest,
Causeless have laid disgraces on my head,
And with your best endeavour have stirr'd up
My liefest liege to be mine enemy:
Ay, all you have laid your heads together—
Myself had notice of your conventicles—
And all to make away my guiltless life.
I shall not want false witness to condemn me,
Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt;
The ancient proverb will be well effected:
'A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.'
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6 |
Henry VI, Part II
[III, 2] |
Queen Margaret |
1718 |
How fares my gracious lord?
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7 |
Henry VI, Part II
[III, 2] |
Earl of Suffolk |
1719 |
Comfort, my sovereign! gracious Henry, comfort!
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8 |
Henry VI, Part II
[III, 2] |
Earl of Warwick |
1834 |
Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.
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9 |
Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 1] |
First Gentleman |
2276 |
My gracious lord, entreat him, speak him fair.
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10 |
Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 4] |
Duke of Buckingham |
2562 |
My gracious lord, return to Killingworth,
Until a power be raised to put them down.
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